Pegasus Project: Special Report - DTNS Experiment Week
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Pegasus is a digital tool sold by the NSO Group to different governments across the globe used to monitor activists, politicians and persons of interest. In The Pegasus Project, journalists from 17 outlets like The Guardian, Le Monde, The Washington Post or Aristegui Noticias, collaborated to reveal the way the spyware was used by different agencies. In this special report we explore what they found and the effect it had in the way technology was implemented by different government agencies.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:04.0 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.0 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a plane device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we're connected audio. |
| 0:13.0 | You can see my work. You can point at it. |
| 0:15.0 | And I can see your face and we can talk. |
| 0:17.0 | Except it's 1968, and it's going to set the computing agenda |
| 0:20.0 | for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.0 | The mother of all demos on no a little more. |
| 0:27.0 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | Imagine you. |
| 0:34.0 | You in a nice comfy seat. |
| 0:37.0 | With your hands behind your head. |
| 0:39.0 | Taking in the views. |
| 0:41.0 | Instead of taking on the road. |
| 0:43.0 | Maybe even taking a nap. |
| 0:45.0 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
| 0:48.0 | without worrying about driving. |
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| 0:55.0 | and we'll take you there. |
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